{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/36",
  "legislation_title": "Post Office Act 1953 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Special provisions as to postal orders.",
  "text": "1), (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Any person acting as a banker in the British postal area who, in collecting in that capacity for any principal, has received payment or been allowed by the Postmaster-General or the authority established by section 6 of the Post Office Act 1969 in account in respect of any postal order, or of any document purporting to be a postal order, shall not incur liability to anyone except that principal by reason of having received the payment or allowance or having held or presented the order or document for payment; but this subsection shall not relieve any principal for whom any such order or document has been so held or presented of any liability in respect of his possession of the order or document or of the proceeds thereof.\n4), (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 18, 20, 21(1)(2)(4)(5) repealed by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 11 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words inserted by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1969 c. 48."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/36/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:16:39.685380+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}